Ken your right on it being more of a license type of agreement over actual production with the US manufactures. I do know Claus provided some of the parts or at least the plans. Neighbor bought a OMC 595 after seeing my Claus baler work. He broke the top roll that the rear door hinges on. OMC was out of the hay equipment business so not parts from them. My Claus dealer got a Claus roll for a baler the same width. We just had to turn the shafts down to English dimensions. After we installed it we got to looking and that roll matched the others exactly. They all had been turned down to English sized bearings. So the original rolls had been manufactured like the factory Claus rolls had or Claus sent them over here.
Ten years or so later he broke another shaft. This time I knew how the roll where made. The shaft is just centered on two disks about 18 inches apart. Then this assemble is slide into the drum and hole welded in. If you look close you can see the welds. I just took a one inch drill and drilled the welds out. Then slide the assembly out. I was able to turn the broken shaft out of the disks. Installed a new shaft in the disks and weld everything back together. He is still using that baler today, 30 years later.
Alan, He pulls it with a an AC XT190 tractor. It handles it fine. That OMC 595 makes a BIG bale too. I think five foot wide and six foot tall. I think the MF 1710 is a narrower baler. IF it is a 4 foot wide baler than you would be able to pull it fine with 70 hp.
As for baling stalks. Anything short that does not ball up well will not work very well in the drum balers. Think of rolling a snow ball to make a snow man. The ball must form inside all the rolls turning. Then it will slowly get larger as you put more material in. You have to make full size bales or there is no pressure on them. All fixed displacement balers are this way. M&W and Krone make balers that have chains running around in a fixed circle to turn the bale. They work much the same way but will bale shorter stuff better. The chain's cross bars will make material turn better than the smaller OD of the drums/rolls.
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